The largest diamond company in the world, De Beers, broke new ground in the Northwest Territories, Canada, with the official opening of its Snap Lake Mine in July 2008. Snap Lake is the first of its two new Canadian mines recently constructed and opened. The company opened the Victor Mine ...
Weatherly International PCL began as a cash-shell back in 2005 with the expressed purpose to develop a company which would take advantage of opportunities in Africa. “Management had aspirations to be a world-class resource company,” Rod Webster, CEO and founder of Weatherly International PCL says. “By 2006, we ...
Platina Resources Limited (Platina), an Australian-based company, is identifying, exploring, developing and intending to produce platinum group metals (PGM) and gold. Platina was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in 2006, having acquired PGM assets from Helix Resources Limited (Helix). Helix is a 1986 ASX-listed company for which Robert ...
As Australia’s largest integrated magnetite mining and pellet production company, Grange Resources Limited has quite the tale to tell. Russell Clark, Managing Director, joined the company in March of 2008, lured by the fantastic opportunities offered by Grange Resources and the strong iron ore market.“At that time, Grange had a ...
Many a grand plan is hatched at the kitchen table, including Gekko Systems, a minerals and metallurgy processing company from Victoria in Australia, founded in 1995 by Elizabeth Lewis-Gray, CEO and Managing Director, and husband, Sandy Gray, Technical Director.“We founded the company originally to develop an invention (the InLine Pressure ...
Finance, business and geological expertise strike it big in the Sudbury BasinThe partnership between FNX Mining and Sudbury, Ontario, was forged out of the earth many years ago. It started before FNX Mining bought mines in the Sudbury Basin in 2002. It started before that, when Chairman and worked as ...
Riversdale Mining Limited has two top deposits “under one roof”. This major announcement is the result of dedicated work by the Riversdale team. IRJ spoke with Steven Mallyon, Riversdale Managing Director, to get this exciting story straight from the source.Mr. Mallyon is a long-term player in the mining industry. Starting ...
Allied Gold Limited, an Australian-based gold production and exploration company, continues to move from strength-to-strength in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The company’s strategy, to increase its gold inventory on Simberi Island by defining additional resources with a view to expanding annualised production, has served it well and resulted in ...
Ramelius Resources Limited has picked a fitting mascot for itself. Ramelius was the name of a horse belonging to a Saxon nobleman in 938 AD, who tied his horse to a tree while he hunted. Upon the nobleman’s return, he discovered that Ramelius had scraped the earth away to reveal ...
“Ours is a story of persistence and commitment,” Graeme Sloan, CEO and Managing Director at Tanami Gold NL, of Perth, Western Australia starts.“In particular from Denis Waddell, the company’s founding chairman. Without his passion and belief in the Tanami region I have no doubt Tanami would not be here today. ...
